The Fourth Conference on Hot QCD Matter is scheduled to be held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati from December 13 to 15, 2026. The Hot QCD Matter conference series was launched at IIT Goa in 2022, followed by IIT Mandi in 2024 and IIT Bhilai in 2025. The conference provides a national platform for researchers and students to discuss recent advances in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), heavy-ion and high-energy particle collisions, advanced detector development, and related areas of experimental and theoretical high-energy nuclear physics.
Scientific Program and Key Themes
- Jets in hot and dense QCD matter
- Heavy Flavor and Quarkonia
- Electromagnetic probes
- Collectivity and Bulk Dynamics from Small to Large Collision Systems
- QCD phase diagram, Lattice QCD, and Neutron Stars
- Initial state and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics
- Machine Learning and AI for High Energy Nuclear Physics
- Advanced Detector Technologies and Instrumentation in High Energy Physics
- Physics Opportunities in ep and eA Collisions: From HERA to the EIC
IISER Tirupati is the sixth institute in the chain of IISERs established by the Govt. of India under the Ministry of Education for imparting quality education in basic sciences and for setting up state-of-the-art research facilities for frontline and cutting-edge research in science. Academic activity at IISER Tirupati commenced in August 2015.